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I was under the impression "use 5.XXX;" was a way of verifying the Perl interpreter was at least up to that version or better. I guess not..
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<p>It does mean that. But, from 5.10 onwards, it also enables a small set of new keywords; including the [state] keyword. Others are [say] & [switch].
<p>See the [perldoc://feature] pragma for details.
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